22.04.1 available for download?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:22 PM Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
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> I keep seeing posts here about Ubuntu 22.04.1 but when I start a download at ubuntu.com, the file I get is named ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso (no ".1").  Is 22.04.1 not available for download yet (maybe only available through the software updater?) or am I looking in the wrong place?

In case this is helpful:

22.04 and 22.04.1 are the same operating system. There is no
difference between them. Installing from a 22.04 ISO and then doing a
full upgrade will give you the same result as if you installed from a
22.04.1 ISO (once it's released) and then did a full upgrade.

The .1 release is simply a snapshot of the Ubuntu package archives so
that we can deliver more updated software on the ISO itself, so that
any bugs that might affect a user during installation or within the
live environment can be fixed for users who install Ubuntu in the
future. So there's nothing all that terribly fancy about the .1
release. To paraphrase what they say on food packaging cartons so
often, "new packaging, same great OS!"

For systems that are kept updated, there isn't really a "release" of
22.04.1 half so much as a "flow". It's not some major overhaul that
could potentially turn the world upside down on your laptop (unlike
do-release-upgrades which have a reputation for going poorly). So your
change to 22.04.1 isn't really a new release. It's just the updates
doing what the updates do.

The place where the 22.04.1 release really matters is at the ISO file,
which will now have all of the updated software. And... we hit a
problem with that. Turns out something we did made Snaps go haywire if
you installed Ubuntu with the OEM installation mode. And since the
problem turned out to be deep inside the system, we didn't want to
just hotfix it, so the Ubuntu Release Team chose to delay the release
so it could be more thoroughly tested before putting it out there for
the world to use.

Ubuntu 22.04.1's ISOs are now scheduled for release on August 11,
2022, as stated in this announcement:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-22-04-1-delayed-until-august-11/29859
Until then, you can still get the latest Ubuntu experience by
installing Ubuntu from the 22.04 ISO and then doing a full update on
your system (something like "sudo apt update && sudo apt -y
full-upgrade && sudo snap refresh" should do the trick if you're
command-line savvy, otherwise the system should give you GUI pop-ups
for updating). Or if you'd like to wait for all of the bugfixes to
land on the ISO, you can wait the three or so days before the release.

Hope this helps!

Aaron Rainbolt
Lubuntu and Ubuntu Member

Notice: This is not an official announcement, nor do I speak on behalf
of Canonical or any other official Ubuntu-related entity. I'm just a
guy who likes to help work on the OS.